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Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on a Soviet stamp

Space Race

Documents on the 20th-century competition for supremacy in spaceflight capacity between the United States and the Soviet Union. The majority of materials in this collection were selected, edited, and annotated by Dr. Asif Siddiqi. For background and context on these documents, please see his introductions Documenting the Soviet ICBM Program and New Sources on Sputnik.

Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on a Soviet stamp